Regarding Zhou Zuopeng's proposal, Liu Cheng had no reason to refuse, and he did not want to refuse.

As long as Zhou Zuopeng is sincere in resisting Japan, he can be regarded as his own person.

Moreover, now they are all on Zhang Haipeng's territory, and they are all in a hostile position with Zhang Haipeng; The enemy of the enemy, then it must be a friend.

In order to make the scene sufficient, Zhou Zuopeng directly asked Lin Guozhong to be tied up, and asked the 18th and 39th divisions to choose to leave behind the team to immediately retreat 50 miles, and then release Lin Guozhong.

Before leaving, Lin Guozhong reminded Zhou Zuopeng that he must not take it lightly, he would inevitably anger Zhang Haipeng by doing so, and at the same time, the Japanese would definitely not stand idly by.

The safest way is to leave Rehe, or even withdraw directly from the Japanese-occupied area, in order to truly ensure safety.

He suggested that Zhou Zuopeng take the team to Chahar to vote for Song Zheyuan, but Zhou Zuopeng refused.

His "defection" actually had nothing to do with the independent battalion and Liu Cheng, but he always had this idea in his heart.

The bravery of the independent battalion and Liu Cheng's resolute righteousness only ignited the fire of the fuse and prompted Zhou Zuopeng to explode in advance.

Zhang Haipeng has always been conceited that he has taken Zhou Zuopeng to death, but he never thought that Zhou Zuopeng would give him a defection at this time.

This is tantamount to adding insult to injury to his current situation.

At the beginning, the Japanese "generously" handed over Rehe to him, ostensibly as a reward and trust in him, but in fact they just wanted to use his value.

On the one hand, it is considered that the Chinese will take over the government affairs and defense affairs of Chahar, which is more easily accepted by the people of Rehe and is not easy to provoke strong resistance; On the other hand, because Song Zheyuan, Feng Yuxiang, Tang Yulin and others stationed in Chahar are old acquaintances with Zhang Haipeng, they can effectively delay the outbreak of some wars.

The Japanese are still not sufficient in reserves, and it will take some time before a full-scale war can be waged.

Before that, the Japanese wanted to gain a firm foothold in the Northeast and turn this black land into their territory.

In the past three years, the rebel forces in Heihei, Kyrgyzstan, and Liao provinces have been increasing, especially not long ago, Zhang Guanyi expanded his ranks again and formed the first army and the first division of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, which made the Japanese even more restless.

At present, the Japanese Kwantung Army Command has launched an all-round operation to wipe out the anti-Japanese forces in various places, and does not want to let there be any more chaos on the Rehe side.

If it weren't for that, Zhang Haipeng, a high-ranking official and commander of the garrison, would have sat at the head a long time ago.

When Zhang Haipeng saw the telegram sent back by Lin Guozhong, he smashed almost everything in his office.

He knew that this time he would not be able to keep the chair under his ass and the hat above his head.

Sure enough, the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters issued an order the next day to transfer him back to Xinjing and continue to serve as the chief military attache of Manchukuo, with Nakano Torayoshi, director of the General Affairs Department, taking over the defense and government affairs of Rehe.

After Zhou Zuopeng and Liu Cheng discussed, they decided to take his men into Chaoyang, with the Daling River as the boundary, and take care of each other with the independent battalion.

Three days later, Xu Zhi returned to Phoenix Mountain with the special operations company, and also brought back nine 75-millimeter mountain guns, ten mortars, and thousands of artillery shells.

As a result of this battle, the independent battalion was reduced by more than 1,000 personnel, and the contingent that had just completed its expansion was reduced to varying degrees, except for the medical company and the transportation company.

Especially the cavalry company, which was directly reduced by ninety percent in this battle; Except for the soldiers who were seriously injured and could not return to the team, there were only more than 50 people left, and more than 400 horses were lost.

Company Commander Hao Dabao was not lightly injured, and although he was out of danger of his life, it is still unknown when he will be able to recover and whether he will be able to continue to lead his troops to fight after recovery.

Liu Cheng called Gao Yuantian Liuwa and the company commanders together to explain the plan for the next step.

Only this time it doesn't need to be negotiated, but deployed directly.

Liu Cheng divided the independent battalion into three groups: the medical company and the transport company continued to stay in the middle of the mountain to ensure logistics and the rescue of the wounded; Duan Jinghe's machine gun company set aside 500 men to continue to stay in the artillery position, and the rest of the soldiers were stationed on the defense line under the mountain together with the special operations company, the first company, the third company, the fourth company, the engineer company, and the cavalry company, so as to guard against the Japanese puppet army attacking again at any time.

Tian Liuwa took 100 people down the mountain and went to Chaoyang and several surrounding counties to recruit soldiers and buy horses again, striving to make up for the battle losses in the shortest possible time.

Some people suggested that Liu Cheng temporarily evacuate and take shelter in the grassland for a period of time, so as to avoid another large-scale battle with the Japanese puppet army in the short term and improve the combat effectiveness of the independent battalion.

But this suggestion was directly rejected by Liu Cheng.

At this time, there was only half a month left before the 918 in 1934, and Liu Cheng did not want to continue the previous development model, nor did he have enough time to organize the training of recruits in a comprehensive and meticulous manner.

Now that we have come to this point, we cannot retreat, and we can only let the fighters of the independent battalion grow up rapidly through fighting again and again.

Both recruits and veterans must really get used to this kind of large-scale battle in the next two years, otherwise they will probably not be able to hold out even a single battle once they enter the customs.

The combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is of course important, but the tempering of large-scale battles can give the most direct and effective improvement to the endurance, combat effectiveness and willpower of soldiers, and the effect is more obvious than that of concentrated training.

At the same time, in the headquarters of the Kwantung Army in Xinjing, a criminal plan against Zhou Zuopeng's 39th Division and independent battalion was quietly taking shape.

In the conference room, three Japanese wearing the rank of general were seated; More than a dozen Japanese officers with the rank of Nakazo and Dazuo had straight waists and looked at the three generals with respectful expressions.

In the center, he has the rank of lieutenant general, is slightly chubby, and has a pair of gold-rimmed round-framed glasses on his nose

"Everyone, you have all understood the matter of Rehe, and now I need you to give me the best plan, how to exterminate those hateful and stupid Shina people in the shortest possible time!"

After the lieutenant general finished speaking, his eyes swept over everyone's faces in turn, waiting for the answer he wanted.

Everyone looked at each other, and no one said anything for a while.

At present, there are traces of anti-Japanese forces even near Xinjing, and Rehe is hundreds of kilometers away from Xinjing, even if they have the heart, they are powerless.

Besides, the existing divisions and regiments of the Kwantung Army have their own garrison areas, and if something happens in Rehe, then it will be directly handed over to the commander of the Fengtian garrison to deal with, won't it be over? Why do you need to discuss this at the Kwantung Army Command?

In addition to the three generals and military ranks, the largest one is a wing commander; And this wing is also responsible for the defense of Xinjing, so it can't go all the way to Chaoyang to clean it up, right?

At this moment, a Japanese officer with the rank of lieutenant suddenly stood up and bowed to the lieutenant general.